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"At this point the {Texas} legislature can’t do anything to stop the growth of solar and wind and batteries . . . . The state desperately needs it."

— Renewable energy

January 1, 1970

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University of Houston energy economist Ed Hirs, describing the need for more electricity generation in Texas and the currently increasing supply of electricity generated by renewables (which should help the Texas Interconnection and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas avoid catastrophic outages like the February 2021 Texas Power Crisis). The quote is from an article in The New York Times entitled "America’s Oil Country Increasingly Runs on Renewables: Texas, the biggest oil-producing state

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University of Houston energy economist Ed Hirs, describing the need for more electricity generation in Texas and the currently increasing supply of electricity generated by renewables (which should help the Texas Interconnection and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas avoid catastrophic outages like the February 2021 Texas Power Crisis). The quote is from an article in The New York Times entitled "America’s Oil Country Increasingly Runs on Renewables: Texas, the biggest oil-producing state